You seem to have missed that part. A part that doesn't have anything to do with commercial success. Yes, she included "financial success" as part of the album's value, but not its whole value as you said.
I meant the context of that section of the article in which the statement I quoted appears.
Racism has kinda gone to the kats' heads despite not having amazing album sells and producing more flops than her other two eras combined.
Katy 'ending' Gaga is a myth. The though of KKKaty having that much influence is laughable. Gaga ended Gaga, we all knew it in 2011. Get with the programme
Katy has pretty consistent single success. The fact that you're having to point out only one or two singles from each era shows that.
Nope, not trolling! I'm just saying that Katy isn't the singles magnet that everyone constantly makes her out to be. Let's see how the rest of the era fares.